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    One Cornish Cross chick is smaller and is starting to have splayed legs - 2 wks old today

    Hi, Of the 25 cornish crosses that I got this year (first time with meat birds), one of them is half-sized at 2 wks old and had legs slightly splayed out. This one walked and moved normally, but has always be a "sit around chick", not as active as the others. I assumed there was something...
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    Curled (or bent?) toes?

    OK ...Sorry for the late response. We've been without internet for awhile. I'll try the booties, but I suspect it won't help. The knuckles rotate to the side as though the toes were twisted. The toes are straight when you straighten out the joints, all toes pointing outward as they should...
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    Curled (or bent?) toes?

    Hi, We just inherited some pullets a couple of weeks ago, noting that they are 9 weeks old now, and I notice that one of them has curled toes on her right foot. The toes straighten out just fine, but when she 'grips' with her toes, the toes on that foot curl to the side rather than down...
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    Emergency???Combs turning purple after I applied vasaline.

    Yes... no Vaseline or any other products on your bird's combs will prevent frostbite. I don't know if it can help cause frostbite or not, but I do know it doesn't help anything. The only real solution is to give them heat and keep them inside if it's windy. Everybody here in Alaska just gets...
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    Buffy died suddenly ...what next?

    My son was the one that found her and she was still warm, but unresponsive even when he opened an eyelid on her. He said her comb was very pale when he found her. I inspected her when I got home and her vent appeared fine ...no feces or signs of blood or injuries and I couldn't feel anything...
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    Buffy died suddenly ...what next?

    Hi, New to chickens here, and our chickens are 8 months old now. They've all been producing very well (4 chickens, average 21 eggs/week) and all appeared health ...but one of the two buff orpingtons was found dead this morning. Is there anything I can do to determine what killed her? I...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    We have 4 chickens (2 buffies, 1 golden comet, 1 cherry egger). We've been getting 4 eggs a day 4 times a week and 3 eggs a day on the other days (89% yield) ...but even though we maintain a timed light that gives them 16 hours of 'day' each day, the chickens have changed their habit in two...
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    still waiting at 27 weeks!!!!!

    Quote: In Alaska, the recommendation is 15 to 17 hours of light every day. It doesn't have to be bright though, so you can run a low wattage bulb to save energy if you want. I use one 25w bulb for about 30 square feet and the timer leaves it on for 17 hours a day. Another option to have...
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    Which chicken laid the egg?

    As it turns out, the big egg was a double-yolker and I'm fairly certain, based on what has been stated in this thread, that it must've been the buff orpington that laid it. It's about her 4th egg, and she only lays one every 2nd day or so right now ...and I think it's been 2 or 2-1/2 days...
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    Which chicken laid the egg?

    Hi, Can anyone here tell by color which type of chicken laid which egg? Our (only) golden comet started laying a couple of weeks ago and initial eggs were much like the one on the left ...slightly darker and weighed 40 grams each. Now they are usually like the one in the middle...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    A gift from our Golden Comet (named 'Comet' ...original, eh?), her first one! (Somewhat obviously the white one is shown for size comparison... a Large from the store.) She laid her first at 23 weeks old... And it weighed 40g on the nose. Brian
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    My chicks aren't eating as much feed??

    Thanks, and yes, plenty feisty ...but they don't try too hard to get away and they relax completely when we hold them. We've been handling them 5X a day (more or less) since the day we got them, and the entire neighborhood of kids have visited several times each ...great socialization. Anyway...
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    My chicks aren't eating as much feed??

    Hi, New to all of this ...we have four 5-week old chickens that we've had since they were 3 days old (two buff orpingtons, a golden comet, and a cherry egger). When just kept in the brood box that I made, they finished off as much as a quart of starter feed in a day (admittedly probably over...
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